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An open letter to our nonprofit members from Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch.
First the good news and a thank you. To all the actors, script-writers, production people and executives who put their talent and time to work last week to join the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s iParticipate TV campaign to celebrate volunteering — thank you. [...]
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Despite ongoing bug fixes to the iParticipate campaign website, web stats from the second full day of the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s iParticipate TV campaign still reflected a struggle to convert media attention into social action.
While millions of dollars of coordinated media promotion aimed at encouraging volunteering continued across the major TV networks on Tuesday, the [...]
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The first full day of the Entertainment Industry Foundation’sweek-long TV campaign to inspire a new era of service and volunteerism got off to a rocky start yesterday as engineers wrestled with reported bugs and search issues on the campaign’s website iParticipate.org.
In collaboration with Service Nation the Entertainment Industry Foundation has rallied the star-power of Hollywood [...]
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This summer, VolunteerMatch was one of many organizations supporting the Obama Administration’s United We Serve – Summer of Service campaign.
The stated goal of Summer of Service was to kick off a sustained campaign to help to make volunteerism and community service a part of the daily lives of all Americans.
So how did we do? What [...]
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